One year after, NUC yet to pay LEADS scholars’ stipend
One year after the Linking Experts and Academics in the Diaspora Scheme (LEADS) researchers at the National Universities Commission (NUC) started benefit in Nigeria, they are yet to be paid any stipend.
The LEADS researchers are Nigerian educators who are specialists in various fields abroad, and took back to Nigeria to fortify instructing in the college framework.
They are caught under the program which started quite a long while back, however appears to have keep running into pained waters since January 2016 when the NUC couldn't pay the month to month stipends of the drew in researchers.
Researchers who have been locked in since January are yet to get installments.
Educator Chinedu Ahaiwe, who has been at the University of Abuja since January, told The Guardian that the experience has been nerve racking. "Owing us since January has abandoned us not able to satisfy numerous commitments", he said.
He likewise depicted the circumstance as embarassing. He communicated frustration at NUC's powerlessness to pay researchers who were gotten from outside the nation, one year running.
Examination by The Guardian uncovered that the NUC had a consent to pay every researcher $2,500 every month among different advantages. While some have returned abroad after a few months of being owed, the individuals who are still inside the program day by day push for their installment without achievement.
All endeavors to get the new Executive Secretary, Professor Abubakar Rasheed, to impact the installment has not yielded any outcome. Additionally, an appeal to sent to the Presidency is yet to yeild the wanted outcome.
Despite the fact that Rasheed had guaranteed to find a way to determine the matter and return to The Guardian since October, all endeavors to contact him demonstrated unsuccessful. Calls set to his telephone from that point forward were not addressed and instant messages were not reacted to.
In any case, The Guardian learnt that the Presidency had begun exploring the matter.
An inside source educated that the last time NUC paid the LEADS researchers was in December 2015. The source included that the commission has not possessed the capacity to pay from that point forward on the grounds that it needed assets. Some different projects, for example, preparing of college speakers abroad have additionally been ended over absence of assets.
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